Archive - EP Seminar (until 2008)

Rare radiative and semileptonic B decays as a probe for New Physics

by Henning Flacher (CERN)

Europe/Zurich
Council Chamber** (CERN)

Council Chamber**

CERN

Description
This talk will give an overview of the latest measurements of semileptonic and rare radiative decays of B-mesons at the B-Factories and discuss their relevance for New Physics searches. As radiative B-meson decays proceed through loop diagrams they are sensitive to contributions from particles outside the Standard Model. Semileptonic B-meson decays provide an excellent probe for the weak and strong interactions of the b quark and allow a precision determination of the magnitudes of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi- Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements |V_cb| and |V_ub|. These provide an important test of the Standard Model mechanism for CP violation and the unitarity of the CKM matrix, in particular through the comparison with sin(2beta).
Slides
Organised by

Martijn Mulders - Marcella Bona / PH ------------------- ** Tea and coffee will be served at 16:00